Love : A Brief History Through Western Christianity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
Intro -- Love: A Brief History Through Western Christianity -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Language of Love -- 2 Biblical Views of Love -- 3 A World Without Love? The Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity -- 4 Caritas: The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Agape and Hellenistic Eros -- 5 Love and the Individual: Abelard and Bernard -- 6 Mystics and Troubadours -- 7 Faith Formed by Love: Scholasticism -- 8 Faith Active in Love: Reformation -- 9 Love as Service: Pietism and the Diaconal Movements -- 10 Love in the Modern World -- Conclusion: Concluding Unscientific Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.